Industrial Collaborators

The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and its future
successor, NSLS-II, can help companies large and small solve
research and manufacturing problems, generate new technologies
and products, and stay competitive. The Photon Sciences Directorate would like to encourage
greater use of its facilities by industrial researchers and
facilitate collaborations between industry and NSLS staff, as
well as government and academic institutions.

Proprietary Research Information

At NSLS, proprietary research is work conducted under a Class Waiver
for Proprietary Users of Energy Research Designated Facilities. Such
research may be conducted by private individuals, representatives from
educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, or industry.

Under the terms of the waiver, the user is obligated to pay the
full-cost recovery rate for NSLS usage, which is $116.23 per hour as of
May 1, 2011. This rate is revised twice per year, usually October and
April. In return, the user has the option to take title to any
inventions made during the proprietary research program and to treat as
proprietary all technical data generated during the proprietary research
program.

Special procedures are in place for proprietary research and must be
adhered to prior to performing any proprietary experiment at NSLS.

The PASS system, used to handle user access and proposals (see
accessing
NSLS)), also handles proprietary research proposals. Once in the
system, potential users will be required to fill out a proprietary form.

Proprietary proposals submitted under the General User Program are
awarded beamtime in the same manner as non-proprietary proposals, except
that scheduling takes place directly between the principal investigator
and the beamline staff.

In additional to the general user program, several Participating
Research Teams (PRTs) include industrial outreach activities as part of
their research program. For more information, contact the Industrial
Program Coordinator, Jun Wang (junwang@bnl.gov
or 631-344-2661).

For the NSLS proprietary research policy, see pages 4 and 5 of the
User Access Policy
(.pdf).

One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical,
biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security.
Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry
and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven
Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State
University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory
facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology organization.